Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Captain Marvel #25 was on sale when I was born and Captain Marvel Jr #62 was cover-dated June 1948.
Does anyone know the answer to the Captain Marvel cover? I'm counting 10.
16.
See Limited Collectors' Edition #C-27 (answer on page 80).
Or the back of the next issue, which explained where the 16 appear:
Artists always draw chemists in that heroic pose. Well, Captain Marvel is pretty tough, but wise professors will tell you to keep the flasks on the lab table and pour liquids carefully. What's shown here is a good way to get sulfuric acid down your sleeve if you slip or get bumped.
That reminds of a bit of graffiti I once read in college: "My daddy was a chemist, but now he ain't no more, 'cause what he thought was H2O was H2SO4."
When pouring strong acids or bases, you're supposed to put a glass rod in the receiving flask and dribble the nasty stuff down the rod so that it won't splash.
This Beano is cover-dated July 3, 1971....
...the day that Jim Morrison died. While the legend of the "27 Club" gets dated most frequently back to Robert Johnson, it was Morrison's death, so soon after those of Joplin and Hendrix, that led to the first documented discussion of a 27 curse. It was only enhanced when Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela Courson, with him at the time of his death, died three years later, at age 27.
Statistics, of course, show there is no significant spike among entertainers dying at 27, and the phenomenon is the result of people focussing on certain prominent deaths. Otis Redding, for example, died in a plane crash in 1967. He was 26. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper's notorious deaths occured when they were 22, 17, and 28.
JANUARY 1961 - BIRTH MONTH
On weekends I try to have some fun with the monthly theme whenever possible and for March 1962, since this character hasn't shown up... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
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